Cooking stove and range.



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GOLDHAMER, ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

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Original application filed Augu'sttli,

Specification of Letters Patent.

1912, Serial Ho. 713,351. Divided and this application filed January 13, 1913. Serial No. 741,842. r t

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM 1*}. Gonn- HAMER, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of St. Louis, State of-Missouri, have invented -certain new and useful Improvements in Cooking Stoves and Ranges, (being a division rom my application for Letters Patent for stoves an ranges, filed August 5, 1912, Serial No. 713,351,) of which the following is a specification, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof.

My invention. relates en new and useful improvemen s in stoves an ranges used for cooking purposes and more especially in thestructure or formation and thereof, the objects of my present invention being to construct an provide a cooking stove or range in whic the oven is firmly supported directly by the front and. rear walls of the stove or range"; to provide a cooking stove or range with what might be called a built-up oven of substantial, simple, and durable construction; to provide a cookin stove or range in which the rear wall of t e stove'or range forms the rear wall of the oven, the amount of material in, and cost of production or manufacture of, the finished stove or range being correspondingly reduced and lessened; and to simplify the construction of, and improve generally upon, stoves and ranges of the kind stated.

To the above ends and with the above and other objects in view, my invention resides in certain novel features of construction,

arrangement, and combination of parts, all as hereinafter more fully described and afterward pointed out in. the claim.

In the accompanying drawings-Figure 1 is a front elevational view of a cooking stove or range embodying my present invention; Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view thereof taken on the line 22, Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is an elevational view looking against the inside of the plate or member forming the front wall of my improved. stove, the same being broken away; Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail sectional view taken on the line 4-4, Fig. 1; and Fig. 5 is a perspective view of my new oven, which, inlthe finished stove or range,has its forward end attached directly to, and supported by, the front wall and its rearward end attached directly to, and supported by, the rear wall allyto certain .a horizontally-disposed posed piece stove or range also forming the rear wall of the oven.

Referrlng by numerals with a stove or rangewhich is otherwise of ordinary construction, 1 indicates the stove base, 2 the supporting rear wall, H the side or end walls,--and 5 the stove top, all of which parts are preferably of ordinary,

A indicates the front wall of thestove or range. This front wall A, as contemplated by my invention, is preferably formed in a single piece pre tegrally comprises a bottom "horizontallydisposed piece 6, vertically-disposed. endpieces 7 and 8, an a top horizontally-disposed piece 9. These piecesfor'm substantially a rectangular frame around the ovendoor openin 10, the edges of said pieces adjacent sai opening being recessed, as at 11, so as to accommodate the hinges of an oven door (not shown).

Formed in the center of bottom-piece 6 is referably rectangular opening 12, normal y closed by a door (not shown), permitting ready access to the space within the stove-body beneath the oven, front wall A being mounted upon base 1 and firmly and securely fixed theretoiin any suitable manner, preferably by means of stove-bolts or screws 6* passing through the lower portion of piece 6, .asshow n in Fig. 1.

Top piece plurality of openings gas burners or pipes, as shown and designated at 13, and formed in piece 7, which is preferably somewhat wider than piece 8, is an opening 14 in which is arranged a suitable gra-te-housing (not shown) and also suitable openings 15 and 16 communicating, respectively, with the fire-box and ash-compartment of the stove or range.v I

Formed integrally with front wall A'adjacent the outer edgeof its vertically-dis- 8 and projecting inwardly or rearwardly therefrom is a vertically-disposed flange 17 which lies immediately inside, and to which is suitably firmly fixed, the front edgeof the corresponding end or side wall 1, vertically-disposed piece 7 of front wall A being correspondingly provided with a similar flange 17 for the at- 9 is preferably provided with a adapted to receive ofthestove or range, the rear wall of the legs for base 1, 3 the well-known construction.

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which illustrate my invention in COIIIIQCtlOll-BO the rear of the plane of the outer face suitably firmly attached and portion of stove-to 5.

Formed integrally with pieces 6, 7, 8, and v at the edges-of, and eX- tachmentto front wall. A of the'opposite end or side wall 4;, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. Likewise formed integrally with front wall A adjacent the upperedge of piece 9 is an inwardly presented prizontally-disposed flange 18 to which is fixed the front 9 of front wall A tending continuously around oven-door opening 10, is an inwardly or rearwardly pro ecting rectangular flange; and rojecting from the upper or outer face of flange 494811 111 lying with its outer and inner faces of wall or plateA and forwardly of the rear edge of flange l9, and also extending 'continuouslyaround oven-door opening 10, 20;.

is a second or ovenabutting integral rectangular flange 11, this flange 11 with the portion of flange19 to the rear thereof pro riding a right-angular seat, and serving as i points of direct attachment and support, for

the front edges ofan oven B, as shown particularly in Figs. 2 and 4. This oven B, shown particularly in Fig, 5, is substantially a rectangular open-ended shell and comprises preferably a 'top' wall 20, a bottom wall 21, and side walls 2222,the said walls being bent outwardly at their rear edges to provide flanges 2O adapted to abut flatwise against and be readily riveted or otherwise suitably attached and fixed to the rear wall 3 ,of the stove-body. The edges of top-wall 20 'of' oven B are flanged or bent downwardly and overlap, andare adapted to be fastened to, the upper edges of the side walls 22--22, and likewise the lower edges of-the side walls 22-22 are flanged or bent inwardly and overlap, and are adapted to be riveted or otherwise fastened .to, the side edges of bottom wall 21. To accommodate these'ovcrlapped or thickened edges of the walls of oven B, th'e corners of the frame formed by the flanges 19 are recessed, as at 19", the said even B being adapted to neatly seat and be firmly supported at its forward end inand by, and preferably fastened, as by means of rivets, stove-bolts, or the like,

or otherwise suitably fixed to, the frame 7 formed by said flanges 19.

By my invention, the construction of cooking stovesand ranges is, as Wlll be seen, considerably simplified and, atthe same particularly for cooking purposes.

time, the cost of production or manufacture thereof is lessened. As ,Shown particularly 1n F g. 2, oven B may be easily arranged wlthin the stove or range body and, being fixed to, and supported at its ends directly by, walls A and 3, is firmly and rigidly held in proper position, itsfront open end communicating directly with oven-door opening 10; and, wall 3 forming, as will be noted,

.notonly the rear wall of the stove or range proper, but 'also the rear saving of material is effected without reducing the efliciency of the stove or range Furthermore, oven B, having a riveted, built-up body, is sub stantial and capable of long-continued use without repairs.

wall of oven B, a I

I am aware that minor changes in the ardoor opening and having an integral relatively broad rectangular flange projecting rearwardly at and around the edges of said opening and a second rectangular or ovenabutting integral flange projecting from the face of said first flange and-lying with its outer and inner faces to the rear of the plane of the outer face of said plate and forwardly of the rear edge of said firstflange, said second flange with the portion of said first flange to the rear thereof forming a right-angular oven-seat, of a substantially'rectangular oven-shell having its front end seated in. and supported by said seat, and fastening devices engaging said ovenshell and said first flange for permanently fastening said oven-shell at its front end to said plate; substantially as described.

thus described .my invention,

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribingwitnesses.

WILLIAM N. GOLDHAMER. Witnesses:

RUTH PETERSON, ZELMA PINCUS.- 

